I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about.… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations.… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me.… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest… — Rachel Klein Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing],… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction… — Randal Cremer Copy Share Image
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
